Curriculum Mapping Groups

Common Core

Find your group assignment. As a group, read over the descriptors for mastery of this standard. (The writing

standards apply to more than one type of writing. Thus “narrative writing” will use some of the same standards that “argument writing” will use.) Take note of the specific language that these descriptors use.

Discuss what you think this “looks like” in a real classroom experience for real Granger network students.

Read through the grade bands for these standards. What skills need scaffolding? What differentiates each grade level?

Referring to the in-and-out goals we wrote last year, discuss the foundation that Granger network teachers have already created. What skills will need to be added? What do we need to reinforce?

Referring to the graduation goals we wrote last year, discuss the desired outcomes for student learning across the network.

Outline the network plan for this standard. What do teachers in this network need to know about teaching this standard? What activities/assessments can we use for our students to demonstrate mastery of

these standards? Are there rubrics? standardized tests? formative or summative assessments we can use in

class? Prepare a slide presentation that will teach others in the network and will help them

guide their own curriculum and instructional design. Save the slide show with your group’s name. Choose a presenter to teach us all about this standard.

Instructions

• Conventions• Parts of speech – nouns, adjective, adverbs, verbs

• Color coding on word wall (red=verb)

• Simple sentence structure• Punctuation – 5 Ss (start, stop, sense, spelling, spacing)• Basic paragraph structure

• Knowledge of Language• Comparing language used in narrative vs. argument vs.

research• Author’s purpose - Audience

• Vocabulary• Root words, pre-suff-affixes, idioms

• Start an idiom, have students finish it

• Inference = an off-the-page thought

Language – 6th Grade

• Conventions• Sentence and Paragraph structure

• Sentence strips

• Run-on sentences and fragments• topic sentence, supporting details, closing sentence

• Punctuation• Period, commas and semicolons• Group revision of sample sentences/paragraphs

• Knowledge of Language• Analyze tone in others’ writing• Writing to a specific audience

• Vocabulary• Dictionary use – available but not popular• Figurative language – through poetry, literature examples• Prefixes and suffixes; Latin Roots (9th)• Synonyms and antonyms

Language – 7th-9th

Grades

• Conventions• Run-on sentences and fragments

• Starters, peer-edits• Complete sentences = subject and predicate, proper punctuation,

expresses a complete thought• Paragraph structure: topic sentence, supporting details, closing

sentence• MLA essay format (double spaced, in-text citations, etc)

• Knowledge of Language• Tone (analyze music lyrics)• Audience, purpose; building ethos

• Vocabulary• Latin Roots, Commonly Confused Words• Inferences = clues from the page + your own experiences• Context clues• Connotation and Denotation – word sorts

Language – 10th-12th Grades